Footprints In The Stone

Scientifically-inclined persons in southern California are pondering deeply over the discover, in, Elysian park here, of a distinet imprint in solid stone of a shoe worn by a human beicg, says the Los Angeles Ilerald. This discovery is oertain to excite o littlecomment, f or there appears to be no authentic record of a f'ossilized footprint of a human of ordinary size having been found heretofore. The peeuJiar feature of this fird is that the owner of the f oot wore a shoe of antique Mexican fashion, with high, narrow heel and broad, flat sole. The imprint is perfectly clear and looks as though the owner had unwittingly put his right foot into soft mud but a day or two ago and left his mark, to be dried by the sun and preserved for future genenations. The fosail imprint was discovered by laborers who were maldug a deep eut for the new wagon road northwest of the park. It was cut out of solid rock, four feet or thereabonits below the surface soil, and from a point on the hillside at least 70 feet abeve the bottom of the little eanyon at the hill's base. The stone is a fine-grained shale, impregnated with lime. An interesting f act in connection with tlhe find is this: Several oher excellently preserved and clearly defined organic remains, such as ferns, leaves and twigs, have been found in the same deposit, and, stranger still, but a few days ago the complete outline of a fish wae taken from the same stratum of stone not many feet distant from this last find. The fish's remains were 20 feet below the surface.